“He was trying to show the connectivity of people, how people connected, how food connects people and he went around the world doing that,” Yingling said.

Bourdain had a driving quest for knowledge. He did not just want to know how to cook with scallops — he wanted to know how to catch scallops.

And that’s how he got to know scalloper Beau Gribbin. “[Bourdain] was a down-to-earth guy. It seemed like I knew him my whole life,” Gribbin recalled to WBZ. “Fun day of scalloping, a lot of laughs. We laughed and talked about a lot of different things.”

While it may have been decades since Bourdain has lived in P-town, he left lasting impressions on many.

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